It turns out that there is a secret place a few miles away from the village, where there is a giant tree born between the mountains, which is the sacred tree in the clan, the legend is that it is a meridian of the ancestor of Hongjun in ancient times, bless the Miao people here with happiness and health, count this sacred tree is afraid that it has been born for tens of thousands of years, and it has already had spirituality, and often glows red at night. Of course, in fact, ordinary villagers have not witnessed the scene of the big tree shining, because the clan rules are very strict, the sacred tree is not allowed to approach at will, and even the people of the clan are strictly forbidden, let alone outsiders like the ancestor master? Only the patriarch and the elders of higher rank go to the sacrifice once a year and beg for the blessing of the sacred tree.

One of the three Miao brothers has seen the sacred tree once, in fact, it is not groundless to call it the sacred tree, the sacred tree does have magical powers, every time there is a plague of Gu worms in the clan, the patriarch will lead the clan to live under the sacred tree for a few days, but the miraculous thing is that the disease will be cured, but if someone divulges the secret of the sacred tree, or approaches the sacred tree without authorization, it will attract bad luck, and eventually will be decapitated and die.

Master Zu will be young and vigorous, naturally he doesn't believe in the bad luck of a broken head, so he asked the three of them to find out together, at first the three people refused to go, but they couldn't stand Master Zu's curiosity to catch their curiosity, and constantly incited, and finally the four decided to go and explore.

The four of them dressed up and explored the sacred tree at night, it is said that the place is not something that ordinary people can go, and even the person who has been to where he has been is lost, but this kind of thing is rare to live in a character like the ancestor master, but when they find it, they can't help but be surprised, it turns out that there are three cliffs and one side of the opening, just in the middle of only a red towering tree, there are many mosquitoes in the valley, but half a shadow can not be seen here, even a bird can not see, revealing a strange light, making people shudder.

Only this sacred tree is vigorous and lush, and the three Miao brothers are even more prostrate and bow, and they dare not raise their heads, for fear of blaspheming the sacred tree, but the sacred tree seems to have a mysterious power that makes people obsessed, and they are slowly attracted to the past, and climb the tree one by one.

Only the ancestor is extraordinary, he first circled twice under the tree, carefully looked at it, until he heard the exclamation from the tree, he hurried up to the tree to respond, and the result also saw an incredible scene, the tree is full of eyes are a kind of red butterfly, the wind blows the tree and shakes, dancing, this butterfly is very large, the whole body is clear, it is like blood flowing inside, bright red and bright red shine, the ancestor knows that the kind of red light he saw before is emitted by this kind of butterfly, this red light changes and flows, dazzling, As the butterflies fluttered and changed the scene, the three Miao people had already been fascinated, crying and laughing for a while, and kept scratching and beating......

Master Zu knew that something was wrong, and tried his best to save them, I don't know what these three people had experienced, their voices had changed, and they were muttering something, maybe it was ancient Miao language, and Master Zu couldn't understand it, and finally they could only flee back to the village in embarrassment.

A few days later, Master Zu wanted to ask the three Miao brothers what they saw, but somehow the three of them became in a trance, and when they mentioned it, they were like ghosts, hiding in the corner and shouting.

But the horror was still to come, these three people died one after another, and even the order of death was the same as the order in which they climbed the tree that day, and they really all died with their heads cut off.

Hearing this, everyone present felt incredible, and hurriedly asked why the three Miao people died, Kongtongzi shook his head and said that no one knew what happened to them, this became a mystery, and I don't know how the ancestor escaped this catastrophe back then.

Later, Master Zu felt that he couldn't stand the three brothers, and he was always worried about this matter, and rarely mentioned it to his disciples. However, he wrote a "Twelve Directions of the Heavenly Master", which recorded twelve flavors of holy medicine, of which the first flavor medicine is called "Wood Butterfly", which should be the kind of red butterfly on the sacred tree, this thing can be used in medicine to moisten the lungs and soothe the liver and stomach, which is not unusual, but there is a record in the end, saying that this wooden butterfly can cure a thousand poisons and break a hundred Gu.

I am very happy in my heart, so Xia Ti's plum blossom Gu is still saved.

Kongtongzi sighed, shook his head, and said that it was not clear, but since Master Zu recorded this medicine, the disciples guessed that Master Zu must have taken this red butterfly from the tree and studied it, but the strange thing is that even his master Wang Zhenren, that is, the eldest disciple of Master Zu, has never seen this wooden butterfly.

Moreover, Kongtongzi himself is a Miao person, and he has never heard of anything about the Miao Di Divine Tree. Of course, there are many kinds of Miao people, there are dozens of big clans like white seedlings, red seedlings, green seedlings, and flower seedlings, and there are countless small sects, and no one can say for sure about the sacred tree.

However, I made up my mind that if I have a point of hope, I have to put in 12 points of effort, and after a lot of hard work, Kongtongzi also agreed to take us to the seedling field to try our luck, as for whether we can find the wood butterfly, it depends on our creation.

In fact, Kongtongzi himself also needs this medicine, he was injured by the three-legged giant toad, the body is highly poisonous, the whole person looks sick and abnormal, like being eaten empty by the giant toad, only by virtue of his profound Taoism, can temporarily suppress the toad poison, presumably this toad poison is extremely powerful, and only the wood butterfly can solve it.

After discussion, I found Qingyun to join the gang again, his kung fu is not weak, and he is also a good hand when he fights the condition that this Lu Lu sword in my hand, whether he finds the wood butterfly or not, this blade is his.

In fact, Qingyun is also very willing, not only can he get the sword, if he can really find the wood butterfly and save his uncle Kongtongzi, he is a great achievement, he is the first big disciple, and then he gets the approval of his uncle, and the next position in charge of the teacher is none other than him, in short, they each have their own abacus.

Half a month later, I, Xia Ti, Kongtongzi and Qingyun rushed to Xiangjun Rongshui together, which is close to Jingchu and Guilin, is the hinterland of the 90,000 mountains, at a glance, there are only rolling mountains and trees, even the weeds in this place can be stretched to more than one person, just early summer, it is extremely hot, there is always a smell of rot and mildew caused by dampness and heat along the way, although we have not seen jackals, tigers and leopards, but all kinds of mosquitoes have almost eaten us, the insects here are strange, many have never seen before, they all have a hobby, Biting.

Kongtongzi reminded that once you enter the meltwater, it is the boundary of Miao Jiang, there are many poisonous snakes and poisonous insects here, but the most terrible thing is actually people, Miao people are hospitable, but there are also a lot of rules, once the rules are broken and people are tricked, the consequences are very serious, so everything has to listen to him, not reckless.

A row in the mountains for more than half a month, large and small walked more than a dozen Miao villages, most of them are green seedlings, foreign guests are very enthusiastic, but no one has heard of the matter of asking about the sacred tree, there is an old patriarch who is nearly 100 years old to persuade us, no need to look for a village, each village here is a clan, the Miao family since ancient times "the same clan is not married", the young men who have become young men are three or five groups to go to the village to "go to the village", that is, to find the girl outside the song or step on the moon, the kind of young men and women spend the moon before the moon, If you are in love and then ask the matchmaker to say goodbye, the girl will naturally marry the outer village, so that there is no secret at all in ten miles and eight towns, he has never heard of the sacred tree at this age, and it is in vain for us to look for fear. However, further back, there are black seedlings in the depths of the mountains, but they don't have anything to do with them, and he doesn't know about the black seedlings, but they are good at using Gu, so if they want to investigate, they have to be more cautious.

Thanks to the old patriarch, we continue to pass through the dense forest, to the hinterland of the 90,000 mountains, this day, in front of the eyes suddenly a piece of open, the pool of clear water under the mountain is crystal clear, there are layers of fertile fields on the slope in front, and then a village on the top of it, the village is not big, only three rows of tight stilted wooden buildings, it looks like only twenty or thirty households, and the previous village is no different, but, there is a simple and dilapidated wooden building standing alone on the top of the slope, from the house below how to say fifteen or sixteen zhang away, it looks very strange.

Perhaps because of the surrounding mountains, this village is like a pearl in the sun.

Everyone was fascinated by the scenery in front of them, and stepped up their steps forward, suddenly, Qingyun stumbled, almost fell, looked back, there was an old man lying in the bushes on the side of the road, he couldn't see him if he didn't look carefully, this old man's face was very white, slender and slender, with a square nose facing the sky, and he was not afraid of being bitten by snakes and insects, and he was curled up to sleep, and he didn't know whether he was intentional or unintentional, just when we passed by, he stretched out a leg and stumbled over Qingyun.

The old man snorted, wiped his saliva, raised his eyelids with disdain, and scolded two words he didn't understand, he glanced at us, but his eyes stopped on Xia Ti's body, as if he was enchanted, and his eyes widened in an instant, and he jumped up.

This old man was wearing a white cardigan, no different from ordinary Miao people, but his shirt was so tattered that it couldn't be torn anymore, it was a rag strip, like a funeral soul flag, and he looked like an old beggar, but the strange thing was that although this dress was torn, it was not dirty at all, and it should even be said to be very clean.

Xia Ti estimated that he was a little uncomfortable staring at me, leaned closer to me, and said softly: "Old man, you ...... You're ......"

Qingyun frowned, and said sharply: "Old man, just now you stretched out your foot to trip me, Dao Ye, I won't bother with you, and now I'm staring at other girls, I'm afraid it's a bit rude." ”

The old man didn't pay attention to Qingyun, his expression was a little confused, he staggered over, and muttered in a very lame Chinese: "Duo'er, Duo'er, come to Dad's place quickly, only Dad's can protect you, don't be with these indiscreet people." ”